Industries · Nonprofits

More IT. Less budget.

More of your budget for the mission. We find every discount you are entitled to, protect donor trust, and make a small team feel fully staffed.

Mission first, overhead last

More IT. Less budget.

Nonprofits are asked to protect donor data, satisfy funder requirements, and support a staff spread across offices, programs, and home desks, all on a budget where every dollar spent on technology is a dollar not spent on the mission.

The good news is that the sector gets real help. Eligible 501(c)(3) organizations can access Microsoft nonprofit pricing and grants, and most of the organizations we meet are either not enrolled or are paying commercial rates on licenses they could be getting far cheaper.

We handle the enrollment and the licensing math, then run the environment: security, help desk, devices, and the volunteer and turnover churn that makes nonprofit IT its own kind of hard. Hardware is passed through at our cost, because a markup on a laptop is a strange thing to charge a charity.

No markup on computers. You pay our cost on laptops, desktops, and accessories, and we tell you plainly what a refresh will run before you budget for it.
Sound familiar?

What we handle for nonprofits.

  • Microsoft nonprofit licensing, claimed and right-sizedWe verify eligibility, claim the grants and discounts you qualify for, and drop seats you pay for and do not use. The savings cover a real share of the support cost.
  • Donor and constituent data protectedAccess controls, multi-factor authentication, and monitoring on the systems holding donor history, scoped so a program coordinator never sees finance records.
  • Staff and volunteer turnover handledGuest access and short-lived accounts, so volunteers and seasonal staff get exactly what they need and lose it when the season ends.
  • Funder and grant reporting supportedWhen a funder asks how you protect data, we supply the documented answer, and file storage stays organized so evidence is a search, not a scramble.
  • Backups for the systems that matterMicrosoft 365, Google Workspace, and your servers are backed up with restores tested, so a mistaken deletion in a shared folder is a five minute fix.
  • Computers at our cost, passed straight throughWe do not mark up hardware. You pay what we pay for laptops, desktops, and accessories, and on a refresh of a dozen machines that difference goes back into the mission.
Built for lean teams

Why nonprofit IT is its own problem.

Small budgets are only part of it. The staffing model, the funder scrutiny, and the licensing rules all pull in different directions.

Enterprise obligations on a lean budget

A twenty-person nonprofit holding donor financials and client case notes carries obligations closer to a bank than to a twenty-person retailer. Grants, discounted licensing, hardware sold to you at our cost, and a shared managed plan are how that gap gets closed without hiring internal IT.

The licensing rules are specific

Nonprofit grants and discounts come with eligibility rules about who may hold a license, how volunteers are handled, and what happens at renewal. Microsoft has changed those terms in recent years, retiring some free grant plans, and organizations that never revisited their tenant are often on the wrong plan. We keep the licensing correct and defensible.

Turnover is the security model

With staff, volunteers, interns, and board members cycling through, the biggest risk is not a sophisticated attacker. It is an account that should have been closed a year ago. Disciplined joiner and leaver process, and access tied to roles rather than people, is what actually protects the data.

Straight answers

Questions nonprofits ask us.

Can you help us get Microsoft nonprofit pricing?+

Yes, and it is usually the first thing we look at. We confirm your 501(c)(3) eligibility through the validation process, register the organization, claim the grant and discount offers you qualify for, and then match the plans to what your staff actually needs.

We are on a free plan today. Is that still available?+

Some of the free offers have changed. Microsoft has retired certain grant plans and moved organizations toward heavily discounted paid plans instead. We will tell you exactly where your tenant stands, what it will cost at renewal, and what the least expensive compliant path forward is.

How do we support volunteers without buying full licenses?+

Usually through guest access or lighter licensing. Volunteers can be given secure access to specific files and Teams channels without a full seat, and there are inexpensive options when someone genuinely needs an organizational mailbox.

Our funders ask about data security. Can you help us answer?+

Yes. We maintain the technical documentation behind the answers: what controls are in place, how access is managed, how data is backed up, and how an incident would be handled. You get language you can put in a grant application rather than a shrug.

Do you mark up computers and hardware?+

No. Hardware is passed through at our cost. We quote laptops, desktops, monitors, and accessories at what we pay, and our revenue comes from the support plan instead. For an organization replacing ten or twenty machines, that is a meaningful amount of money staying with the mission.

Is managed IT affordable for an organization our size?+

It is a flat rate, and for many nonprofits the licensing savings we find offset a real portion of it. We would rather size a plan you can sustain than sell you one you cancel in a year.

From a client in your field
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"Your support team is always there when any situation arrives. If it cannot be fixed remotely, you are at our doorstep within the hour. The service you provide is the reason we will be sticking with Wireguided."

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Charlene SturgisDirector · Epilepsy Foundation of New England

Serving Massachusetts nonprofits

We support charitable organizations, foundations, human services agencies, and community groups across the South Shore, Boston, and southeastern Massachusetts from our office in Scituate.

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